Uluslararası Anadolu Ziraat Mühendisliği Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Özlem BAKIR

Konular:Ziraat, Ortak Disiplinler

Anahtar Kelimeler:Biotechnology,Drugs,Defense mechanism,Secondary metabolites

Özet: Secondary metabolites are chemical compounds that the plant does not need for normal growth and development, but are produced in plants as by-products of cell metabolism. Although secondary metabolites are not essential for plant life, they start to be synthesized as a defense mechanism when the plant is exposed to any stress factor. A few secondary metabolites are used chemically, especially drugs, flavors, fragrances, insecticides and dyes, and therefore have a great economic value. These new technologies will serve to expand and improve the continuous usefulness of high plants as sources of chemicals regeneration, especially medical compounds. Concentration efforts in this area are expected to contribute to the biotechnological production of specific, valuable and unknown plant chemicals.

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